The bin/cue of the disc is now available, along with a nifty scan of the disc! I've made the pre-packaged version more easy to setup, but we're still working on making a stripped down version of the HL assets (akin to the Opposing Force demo that released in 2000) so that it's just a plug and play experience. Keep your eyes pealed for that! hiddenpalace.org/Half-Life:_Oppo… archive.org/details/ofdemo-oct-1…
So, a few weeks ago I discovered a Opposing Force beta disc, I sent a link to @MagicNipples and he purchased it to make sure it would secured and released to the community. Today is the day we get that file out there publicly. We still need to a proper bin/cue dump via ImgBurn!
NEW LEAK: Recently a bunch of models were leaked out and included with the leak is the infamous Jetski. Only rumors have speculated about the Jetski model based upon the WC Map Pack. We can now say we have this piece of Half-Life 2 history!
Robin Walker in the Inspiration Room™. (1999, Colorized)
Did you know that the Desert sections of Surface Tension used to not be connected to the other maps of Surface Tension? These Desert maps used to be known as "Geo," and were developed by Dario Casali. The chapter was developed around the time they decided to start redoing large parts of the game (around October of 1997) likely intended as a replacement for the alpha version of Surface Tension. Ultimately, it was just merged into Surface Tension instead of outright replacing it. There were 4 m…
Did you know that on Valve's Curator page on Steam there's a section for the Half-Life series? On said HL series page, there's a shocking lack of Half-Life. However, Half-Life: Source (the bad option) is at full display and is considered apart of the Half-Life series. This is unacceptable. Valve, please fix. store.steampowered.com/developer… (the page is also advertised with a pre-release Opposing Force screenshot, smh my head)
I can NEVER forgive Valve for their severe lack of care for continuity! #wheresthethirdpipe #immersionruined